AI enhances physicians’ ability to identify extent of prostate cancer with 84% accuracy

The Directors: New directors Herbst and Gius chart a future built on AI, collaboration, and rural access

New pressures notwithstanding, being a cancer center director is still a dream job, two of the nation’s newest cancer center directors said.

August 07, 2026

Vol.52 No.31

By Claire Marie Porter and Paul Goldberg

Data-driven: Using AI to solve the complexities of cancer

When it comes to harnessing artificial intelligence for cancer breakthroughs, Johns Hopkins researchers Alex Szalay, PhD, and Janis Taube, MD, MSc, believe the future begins with data—lots of it.

August 07, 2026

Vol.52 No.31

By Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Communications

In Brief

UCLA researchers receive $3.9M NCI grant to boost the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy

Cristina Puig-Saus, an associate professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics and surgical oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and an investigator at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and her research team have received a five-year, $3.9 million grant from NCI to develop drug-based strategies that could enhance cancer immunotherapy for patients with melanoma and potentially other types of cancer.

August 07, 2026

Vol.52 No.31

Drugs & Targets

FDA approves Pluvicto for mHSPC

FDA approved Pluvicto (lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan) in combination with an androgen receptor pathway inhibitor for patients with prostate-specific membrane antigen-positive metastatic androgen pathway modulation-naive/sensitive prostate cancer, commonly known as metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

August 07, 2026

Vol.52 No.31

Clinical Roundup

DNA atlas could power the next generation of AI drug discovery, Salk-led study finds

Researchers at the Salk Institute and Arc Institute and their collaborators unveiled the first body-wide single-cell atlas of two major epigenetic systems: three-dimensional genome folding and DNA methylation—precise patterns of methyl chemical groups tacked onto DNA—measured simultaneously in the same cells.

July 31, 2026

Vol.52 No.30

Regulatory News

Hegseth orders testosterone testing for troops as FDA moves to loosen TRT prostate cancer warnings
Experts caution the move amounts to a “huge, unregulated, natural experiment”

In a video captioned “The High-T Department of War” and posted on X, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that he was authorizing a screening program for troops to ensure “you have the right testosterone levels to operate at your absolute best.”

July 24, 2026

Vol.52 No.29

By Claire Marie Porter

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The Directors: New directors Herbst and Gius chart a future built on AI, collaboration, and rural access

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UCLA researchers receive $3.9M NCI grant to boost the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy

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Hegseth orders testosterone testing for troops as FDA moves to loosen TRT prostate cancer warnings
Experts caution the move amounts to a “huge, unregulated, natural experiment”